Promising to tell you the Prawn, the whole Prawn and nothing but the Prawn…….here I shine a light on global shrimp aquaculture and downstream markets……for those looking in from outside and those inside interested in the wider outside. Food trends, intelligence, tech, regulatory, investment and some fun, way out, or even wacky, shrimp material….

Wonder what will happen to bulk importing for secondary processing? Most value addition offshore – as is currently. Increase usage of SUP – single use plastics (SUP) for food safety and infectious shrimp disease control.

This move is to control entry and a possible spread of EHP into Australia of vibrio in the shrimp mid-gut – but not sure how that then affects locally farmed shrimp – could be those pesky fishermen using the raw prawn as bait in fishing……..but is the Australian shrimp farming bio-security setup that poor and husbandry not sufficiently well managed to overcome issues. Is it part of state intervention in an exclusionary lock down health mentality. Certainly may affect local markets and be fall foul of WTO if applied to same shrimp species cultured in Australia.

Careful – Australian industry shut down three years ago. No profits were being made with production survival very low. An increase in production of 3.7 MT/hectare will bring production back to normal levels.

Improving the revenue of Australian shrimp affected by disease, whose production and revenue is zero or negative, is relatively simple when starting from that benchmark.

It DOES not mean that this technology will increase revenue for those already producing shrimp.